JakobProgsch

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1. 1.▲
   by JakobProgsch 7y ago

   The first line is why I'm not 100% convinced of the severity of this mistake compared to the alternatives. The problem fundamentally is the use of magic values/numbers to represent the concept of "no value". You don&#x27
2. 2.▲
   by JakobProgsch 7y ago

   > This kind of approach is usually not what you want One thing I learned from all the issues and emails I have received about this repository over the years is that what people consider the "usual" use case of threads varies wi
3. 3.▲
   by JakobProgsch 7y ago

   Earlier versions did use decltype but that causes issues with pointers to member functions. See: https://github.com/progschj/ThreadPool/commit/ac2a77d5cc0436... result_of has now been deprecated in newer C++
4. 4.▲
   by JakobProgsch 7y ago

   I'm the original author of that github repo and I agree with all of this. The original reason why I wrote it was to familiarize myself with the then new features in the C++11 standard. Particularly I liked the simplicity of std::async